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Georg John
Georg John (born Georg Jacobsohn; 23 July 1879 – 18 November 1941) was a German stage and film actor. Early life Georg Jacobsohn was born into a Jewish household in Schmiegel, Province of Posen, Imperial Germany. Career John began his career around 1900 in smaller stages and traveling theatres. In 1904, he was engaged at the Theater of Wilhelmshaven, followed by appearances at Stolp in 1905, Altona, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Bochum and Göttingen. In 1914, John worked as an actor and producer for Vaterländische Schauspiele in Vienna. In 1917, John first appeared in silent movies, playing a Tibetan monk in ''Die Fremde'' (''The Stranger''), and Death in ''Hilde Warren und der Tod'' (''Hilde Warren and Death''). These roles were typical of the kinds of parts he would become known for, even if, at first, he was more often seen as a father, husband or dignitary. Beginning in the 1920s, John appeared in the films of notable German filmmakers, where he often played bizarre, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Śmigiel
Śmigiel (german: Schmiegel) is a town in Kościan County, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland, with 5,420 inhabitants (2004). History Śmigiel was granted town rights in 1415 or perhaps earlier. It was a private town of Polish nobility, administratively located in the Kościan County in the Poznań Voivodeship in the Greater Poland Province of the Polish Crown. It was annexed by Prussia in the Second Partition of Poland in 1793, then regained by Poles and included within the short-lived Polish Duchy of Warsaw in 1807, re-annexed by Prussia in 1815, and included within Germany in 1871. While part of Prussia and Germany, the town was administered within Kreis Schmiegel in the Grand Duchy of Posen/ Province of Posen. As Poland regained independence following World War I in 1918, the town was reintegrated with Poland, and local Poles joined the Greater Poland Uprising (1918–19), which aim was to reintegrate the entire region of Greater Poland with the reborn state. Among the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau
Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau (born Friedrich Wilhelm Plumpe; December 28, 1888March 11, 1931) was a German film director, producer and screenwriter. He was greatly influenced by Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Shakespeare and Ibsen plays he had seen at the age of 12, and became a friend of director Max Reinhardt. During World War I he served in the Imperial German Army, initially as an infantry company commander on the Eastern Front. Murnau later transferred to the German Army's Flying Corps, as an observer/ gunner, and survived several crashes without any severe injuries. One of Murnau's acclaimed works is the film ''Nosferatu'' (1922), an adaptation of Bram Stoker's ''Dracula''. Although not a commercial success, owing to copyright issues with Stoker's estate, the film is considered a masterpiece of German Expressionist cinema. He later directed the film '' The Last Laugh'' (1924), as well as a 1926 interpretation of Goethe's ''Faust''. He emigrated to Hollywood in 1926, where he joi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Der Weg Der Grete Lessen
Der or DER may refer to: Places * Darkənd, Azerbaijan * Dearborn (Amtrak station) (station code), in Michigan, US * Der (Sumer), an ancient city located in modern-day Iraq * d'Entrecasteaux Ridge, an oceanic ridge in the south-west Pacific Ocean Science and technology * Derivative chromosome, a structurally rearranged chromosome * Distinguished Encoding Rules, a method for encoding a data object, including public key infrastructure certificates and keys * Distributed Energy Resources * ∂, the partial derivative symbol *Deep energy retrofit, an energy conservation measure Organizations * Digital Education Revolution, former Australian Government-funded educational reform program * DER rental (Domestic Electric Rentals Ltd), a UK television rentals company * Documentary Educational Resources, a non-profit film producer and distributor Other uses *Defence (Emergency) Regulations, legal regulations promulgated by the British in Mandatory Palestine in 1945 *Department of Environ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harakiri (1919 Film)
''Harakiri'', or ''Madame Butterfly'', is a 1919 silent film directed in Germany by Fritz Lang. It was one of the first Japanese-themed films depicting Japanese culture. The film was originally released in the United States and other countries as ''Madame Butterfly'' because of the source material on which it is based and which also inspired Giacomo Puccini's eponymous 1904 opera. The film starred Lil Dagover as O-Take-san. Synopsis Nagasaki, Japan at the turn of the 20th century. ''Daimyō'' Tokujawa comes back to Japan after being an ambassador in Europe. A Buddhist monk wants Tokujawa's daughter O-Take-San to become a priestess of Buddha. In order to have her at his mercy, the monk sends the mikado a letter accusing the daimyo of conspiring against him. As a result, the mikado sends the daimyo a sword with which he commits suicide. The monk abducts O-Take-San but one of the Temple's servants let her escape and sends her to a tea-house where she becomes a geisha. A Danish nava ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unheimliche Geschichten (1919 Film)
''Unheimliche Geschichten'' ( ''Uncanny Stories''), titled ''Eerie Tales'' in English, is a 1919 German silent anthology film directed by Richard Oswald and starring Conrad Veidt. The film is split into five stories: ''The Apparition'', ''The Hand'', ''The Black Cat'' (based on the Edgar Allan Poe short story), ''The Suicide Club'' (based on the Robert Louis Stevenson short story) and ''Der Spuk'' (''The Spectre''). A remake, also directed by Oswald, was released in 1932. Plot At midnight in a closed antiquarian bookshop, three figures – Death, the Devil and the Harlot – step out of paintings and read five macabre stories. The first story is ''The Apparition'', about a man (Veidt) and a woman (Berber) who check into a hotel. When the woman vanishes, everyone there denies she ever existed. It is later revealed that she died of the plague and the hotel management wanted to cover it up. The second story is called ''The Hand'', about two men (Veidt and Schunzel) who compete over ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Spiders (film)
''The Spiders'' (german: Die Spinnen) is a German silent two-part adventure film written and directed by Fritz Lang. It was released in two parts in 1919 and 1920. Two more parts were originally planned but never made. It was believed to be a lost film, but it has been rediscovered and restored. Plot :Part 1. ''Der goldene See'' ("The Golden Lake"): In San Francisco, well-known sportsman, adventurer and traveller Kay Hoog announces to his club that he has found a message in a bottle with a map drawn by a Harvard professor who has gone missing. The message tells of a lost Incan civilization that possesses an immense treasure. Hoog starts an expedition to find the treasure, while the crime syndicate "Die Spinnen" sends out a rival expedition led by the beautiful but dangerous Lio Sha. At the Golden Lake, Hoog saves the Inca priestess Naela and falls in love with her. He takes her home with him after discovering a mysterious clue about a diamond ship. Back in San Francisco, Lio Sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Boy In Blue (1919 Film)
''The Boy in Blue'' (german: Der Knabe in Blau and also known as ''Emerald of Death'') is a 1919 silent German drama film directed by F. W. Murnau. It was Murnau's directorial debut. The film is now considered to be a lost film, though the Deutsche Kinemathek film archive possesses 35 small fragments ranging from two to eleven frames in length. Thomas Gainsborough's painting ''The Blue Boy'' and Oscar Wilde's novel ''The Picture of Dorian Gray'' were inspirations for Murnau to create this film. Plot Thomas von Weerth (Ernst Hofmann) is a poverty-stricken aristocrat who lives in his broken-down castle with a single old servant (Karl Platen). His sole expensive remaining possession is a painting of an ancestor (similar to Thomas Gainsborough's painting ''The Blue Boy''), which depicts the ancestor wearing a gigantic emerald. According to family myth, the emerald is cursed, and the son of the ancestor hid the emerald somewhere in the castle to stop the curse. Weerth has been sear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peer Gynt (1919 Film)
''Peer Gynt'' is a 1919 German silent film directed by Victor Barnowsky and Richard Oswald and starring Heinz Salfner, Ilka Grüning and Lina Lossen.Soister p.54 It is based upon the play by Henrik Ibsen. Cast * Heinz Salfner as Peer Gynt * Ilka Grüning as Aase * Lina Lossen as Solveig * Hans Sternberg as Jon Gynt * Georg John as Prof. Dr. Begriffenfeldt * John Gottowt as der Dovre-Alte * Irmgard von Hansen as Ingrid * Maria Forescu as Die Grüngekleidete * Conrad Veidt as Ein fremder Passagier * Hanna Lierke as Anitra * Richard Senius * Gertrud von Hoschek * Anita Berber Anita Berber (10 June 1899 – 10 November 1928) was a German dancer, actress, and writer who was the subject of an Otto Dix painting. She lived during the time of the Weimar Republic. Early life Born in Leipzig to Felix Berber, First Violinist ... References Bibliography * John T. Soister. ''Conrad Veidt on Screen: A Comprehensive Illustrated Filmography''. McFarland, 2002. Extern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Veritas Vincit (film)
''Veritas Vincit'' is a 1919 German silent historical film directed by Joe May and starring Mia May, Johannes Riemann, and Magnus Stifter. It was made as an epic in three episodes, similar to D. W. Griffith's ''Intolerance''.Hake p.44 The first takes place in Ancient Rome, the second during the Renaissance and the third shortly before the First World War. Although not released until Spring 1919, it had been made during the final months of the war the previous year. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Paul Leni and Siegfried Wroblewsky. It was shot at the Weissensee Studios in Berlin and on location around the city. Cast * Mia May as Helena / Ellinor / Komtessa Helene * Johannes Riemann as Lucfius / Ritter Lutz von Ehrenfried / Prinz Ludwig * Magnus Stifter as Decius * Emil Albes as Flavius * Wilhelm Diegelmann as Tullulus * Ferry Sikla as Fucius Asinius * Paul Biensfeldt as Digulus * Georg John as Blinder Senator * Leopold Bauer as Meister Heinrich, der G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waves Of Fate
''Waves of Fate'' (German: ''Wogen des Schicksals'') is a 1918 German silent drama film directed by Joe May and starring Mia May, Erich Kaiser-Titz and Georg John. Bock, Hans-Michael & Lenssen, Claudia. ''Joe May: Regisseur und Produzent''. 1991. (in German) p. 162. . Cast *Mia May *Erich Kaiser-Titz *Georg John *Rolf Brunner *Frida Richard *Elga Beck *Hermann Vallentin Hermann Vallentin (24 May 1872 – 18 September 1945) was a German actor. Biography Hermann Vallentin was born in Berlin in 1872. He was the son of a Jewish timber merchant and factory owner, Felix Vallentin. He was the older brother of actress ... References External links * Films of the German Empire German silent feature films Films directed by Joe May German drama films 1918 drama films UFA GmbH films German black-and-white films Silent drama films 1910s German films 1910s German-language films {{1910s-Germany-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Die Fremde (film)
''When We Leave'' (german: Die Fremde, tr, Ayrılık) is a 2010 German-Turkish drama film, produced, written and directed by Austrian filmmaker Feo Aladag. The film received worldwide acclaim, and represented Aladag's debut as a producer, writer and director. ''When We Leave'' tells the story of a young German/Turkish mother's struggle for self-determination between two systems of values. It is a multi-layered story about honor, intolerance and the unshakeable belief in a harmonious coexistence. The film stars Sibel Kekilli, Florian Lukas, Alwara Höfels, Nursel Köse and Turkish actors Settar Tanrıöğen and Derya Alabora. It was produced by Independent Artists, a company founded by Aladag in 2005. ''When We Leave'' had its world premiere on 13 February 2010 at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival. It screened in the special Panorama section and was awarded the Europa Cinemas Label Prize. It began its German release on 11 March 2010. Reviewers called ''When We Leave' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hilde Warren Und Der Tod
''Hilde Warren und der Tod'' (''Hilde Warren and Death'') is a German film from 1917 by Joe May (director, born Joseph Otto Mandel) and Fritz Lang (screenplay). The title role of Hilde was played by Joe May's wife Mia May. Plot Hilde Warren, a famous actress, is courted by the manager of her theatre. However, she rejects his proposal of marriage, wishing to devote herself entirely to her art. Death tries to tempt her, but she rejects him. Soon after, she falls in love with handsome Roger Hector who carefully hides his association with the underworld. When the police comes to arrest him, he shoots at them and is killed. Shortly afterwards, Hilde discovers she is expecting a child by him. She is desperate and again Death appears to her, again to no avail. Years pass and the vices of the father appear in her son Egon. The theatre manager is still willing to marry Hilde, but only if she abandons her child, a condition she can not accept. Hilde thinks she may be the cause of Egon's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
